In the last video, we talked about how to create a SWC file,…and what we did here is we connected the extension development with the…extension consumption.…So everything that makes up an extension--the descriptor, the ActionScript…code, the native code, and all the resources for each platform--is all assembled…into this SWC file.…Now what we have to do is we have to take this SWC file and package this up into…an ANE file, and the ANE file is what the Flex developer adds to their project,…and then they can utilize these ActionScript APIs that we defined in our class…and these ActionScript APIs, as you see, if I scroll down here, right, this…ActionScript API connects back to the native code through the call function,…which is very powerful.…

And again, all of this is hidden from the Flex developer.…They can simply just import this, link it to the ANE file, and be able to utilize…all of these native extensions. So, very, very powerful.…Now to actually create this ANE file, we have to do a bunch of different things.…

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1/30/2012

Join James Talbot, as he reviews the new features in Adobe Flex, Flash Builder, and AIR for mobile application developers. This course covers the Spark components for building mobile user interfaces in the Flex SDK, and the AIR support for native extensions, which enable applications to use parts of the host operating systems that were previously unavailable. The course also describes new testing and network monitoring capabilities available with Flash Builder 4.6, and the ability for Android applications to be deployed without relying on a separate runtime.